The Grand List of Unavailable Enemy Weapons

Indeed. I just got my Coralax Gladiator from farming them in the Hollows, so, there's already a badge to easily tie the unlockable to.

Is the Greatest Ice Sword too signature to have it available at character creation?

I note that while you've included the image of the Ring Pommeled Sword in your quote, you don't specifically mention it- so what are the chances of that becoming availible? It's pretty nice looking.

On a similar note, any chance of Bots MMs ever getting a Pulse Rifle that isn't huge and klunky?

Ugh, good point.

You can harvest Coralax in the Hollows (along the Red River). This was added with the revamp in Issue 12

Yes, but villains were kind of annoyed by that, weren't they?
I don't see citing precedent for a mistake as a compelling reason to repeat it, honestly.
Going Rogue will probably make this a moot point anyway, though...

So, Redcap daggers being only available to Heroes year round isn't a desirable outcome? Or is their limited availability during the Christmas and Valentines events considered sufficient?

But what about the Ring-Pommeled Sword, BABs? WHAT ABOUT THE RING-POMMELED SWORD?

The big ice sword doesn't really have any unique qualities that distinguish it from any other ice sword. It's still just a sword made out of ice. It's not special demon ice or anything. It's just in a shape that, for whatever reason, players haven't thought to do. After giving Earth new skin themes, I think adding a new model for some other sets is very much within reason. To me that sounds about as silly as saying we'd have to unlock the crystal theme for earth powers by fighting Coralax. What's wrong with just... having it?

Any thoughts on ring pommel saber and the Knives sawblade? They're generic enough that they could be available freely. But even if you decide to tie them into an unlockable, both sides have about equal access to the gangs that use them. I'd love to swing that sawblade around.

That's a great reason in theory, but in practice it's pretty weak. Even when you do get those really cool and unique powers like Rune of Warding and Loa Bone, you think it's cool for maybe two uses until you realize the power is practically useless. You end up with a bunch of temps that have base accuracy, pretty unimpressive damage, and secondary effects that are really specific and useless (like the Rune of Warding). Result is more that you feel like they made a cool effect and wasted it on something that most people will never obtain, much less use.

Looking like Psychic Scream doesn't make Wave Scrambler any less useful. And keeping Rune of Warding unique doesn't make me use the power. What am I going to do with it? Attack enemies that only exist in one zone and do a little bonus damage, assuming it doesn't miss because it has base accuracy? I'd rather just stab them. I'm more inclined to pick up all the weapon-based temps to showcase how cool some of them look than to actually USE any of them.

There's still a precedent for temp weapons becoming available in other ways. Vet rewards allowed us more long-term access to some powers when we can make the most use out of them (at low levels). So it's not all about keeping the powers unique. Sometimes cool stuff can and should be available in other ways.

These are hilarious ideas, but for the wrong reasons. I'm not sure I even want to touch the hammer for stone one.

The Jurassik car concept can only go two ways I think, and both are laugh-worthy. One is the thing keeps it size and not only dwarfs every character who wields it, but totally destroys all sense of animation sync. The other option is that it's small and you end up carrying around a toy car. Though the odds are approximately zero, I'd love to see either one of those for the comedy factor alone.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

I'm half-Japanese, have a lot of Japanese themed toons, and I still am /signing this for great justice!
It's also one of the things that irks me about the natural booster being ninja themed: we've already got ninja costume pieces.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Arachnos Maces should be a no go for Veat and Pardon power reasons!

Doom/Batman in 2012

The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!

If it's a temp power for something very specific, ie "The Lao Bone" or a Void Hunter Rifle, then yeah...I don't want to make them into generic custom weapons.

But just being a temp power doesn't mean I won't consider it as a potential custom weapon.

I disagree with the first part of your statement so hard.

Even so, good work, in general, as always BABs.

Edit- Hawtdayum, first post after a red name!

It is. I thought it was a little odd BaBs kinda ignored that while going through the list. This is a nice happy ending for that mystery, though!

I stand corrected. But that does sort of undermine your argument against adding the Coral Hammer, which you mentioned is a temp power in a way that could be read as meaning that that is a reason you wouldn't add it as a weapon. Sure it's too big as-is, but you could just resize it like you did with the Carnie mallet.

Though maybe that's not something you "just" do.